Precipitation, to be clear, includes any variant – not just water, but snow or freezing rain and other forms of water falling from the sky. Much like the Eastern Seaboard in winter, a "warm" Mars ...

On May 12, weather-station equipment on NASA's Curiosity rover (pictured 2021) recorded a high temperature of 11 degrees ...

Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...

NASA's Europa Clipper, en route to Jupiter’s moon Europa, captured infrared images of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby to ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

The BBC's Sky at Night Magazine reports that, should we ever get to stargaze on Mars, we'd see two moons - Phobos and Deimos - instead of just one. We wouldn't see as many satellites either, making it ...

NASA has big goals for Mars. The agency wants to collect the first samples from the Martian surface and return them to Earth ...

During its time on Mars, Curiosity has traveled nearly 19 miles, captured more than a million images, and continues to provide valuable data on Mars’ geology and climate.

By listening to the echoes of "marsquakes" — seismic waves rippling through Mars ' crust — researchers uncovered signs of ...

Over the past decade, the Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on the surface of Mars. This gas is often produced ...

Scientists have been baffled after discovering bizarre structures on the Martian surface which look like 'a patchwork of ...

As we explore Mars using increasingly sophisticated instruments and techniques, we have found mounting evidence that conditions existed on the surface of Mars in the distant past that would have ...